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A White's Tree Frog Care Guide for Beginners (Dumpy Frogs)
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Your 13 minute guide to FROGGY SUCCESS!
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Litoria caerulea - Commonly known as White’s Tree Frog, The Australian Green Tree Frog or Dumpy Frog.
These Australian-native frogs are known to populate rainforest environments. They are nocturnal, and although they do enjoy and are required to bask in warm sunlight, they spend the day time calmly sleeping while camouflaged on leaves and trees, enjoying the shade and security foliage provides them. They are known for their loud call, which they use to communicate with one another over significant distances.
When given adequate territory, White's Tree Frogs can be housed communally. You should however, take particular care to ensure they're within a comparable size of one another when being housed together.
White's Tree Frogs are a fairly large Tree Frog. Adult specimens can range in size from around 3 to 5 inches in length. Due to this and and their level of activity, they usually require a larger sized enclosure than your average captive kept frog.
As with any amphibian, regular handling is not recommended. Frogs absorb moisture through their skin in order to stay hydrated, and handling can lead to them being unintentionally poisoned due to unseen contaminants on bare skin. Always wash hands and then rinse sufficiently enough as to remove any soap before handling - or alternatively, use non-powdered vinyl or nitrile gloves (NOT LATEX).
Frogs (particularly tree frogs) can also be prone to making sudden movements such as leaping from your hand, which makes them prone to injury from a fall or drop.
With those facts always on your mind - I can say that my experience with White's Tree Frogs has been that they make excellent pets.
They're typically quite gentle and calm and take well to being handled compared to other more flighty tree frog varieties. They do have a tendency to hurl themselves blindly in the direction of movement that might be perceived as a food source, but are not capable of inflicting a painful bite. They do however latch onto food - as most frogs do - and may require gentle assistance to persuade them to let go of a finger or feeding utensil that came to close to their line of vision.
White's Tree Frogs are considered fairly hardy when compared to some other types of frogs, but they do have some specific environmental needs that need to be maintained. a temperature gradient of 75-85 degrees Fahrenheit within their enclosure is ideal - giving the frog room to regulate its body temperature as its comfort dictates. This temperature can be allowed to drop slightly at night, as it would in their natural environment. I personally do this with use of a basking bulb which is turned off a night.
High moisture and humidity are essential for White's Tree Frogs, meaning you'll need to mist their enclosure at least every day, or saturate their substrate with water regularly. I keep humidity up by providing a large soaking dish, which my frogs make constant use of. They often spend most of the night wading in the water, rehydrating themselves.
Coco fiber and moss make great substrate for maintaining humidity, and work well when replaced during a monthly cleaning/break down of your terrarium.
Remember that these warm and damp conditions are conducive to mold and bacteria, which can easily make a frog sick, so ensure you have adequate ventilation in their enclosure, and regularly spot clean their home to prevent the air within from becoming stagnant.
The staple diet for most captive bred White's Tree Frogs is crickets, which MUST be regularly powdered with calcium and vitamin D supplementation. Other insect feeders such as hornworms, roaches and occasional super worms can be used where available though.
Average lifespan for a captive White's Tree Frog that has been provided with proper care ranges from 10-15 years, with rare reports of them surviving to closer to 20 years of age.
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0:00 Intro/About WTFs
1:00 Size, Temperament & Behaviour
2:23 Handling your WTF
3:22 Other General Information
4:25 Housing a WTF
9:57 Feeding your Frog
12:33 Outro
Links to mentioned videos:
Litoria caerulea - Commonly known as White’s Tree Frog, The Australian Green Tree Frog or Dumpy Frog.
These Australian-native frogs are known to populate rainforest environments. They are nocturnal, and although they do enjoy and are required to bask in warm sunlight, they spend the day time calmly sleeping while camouflaged on leaves and trees, enjoying the shade and security foliage provides them. They are known for their loud call, which they use to communicate with one another over significant distances.
When given adequate territory, White's Tree Frogs can be housed communally. You should however, take particular care to ensure they're within a comparable size of one another when being housed together.
White's Tree Frogs are a fairly large Tree Frog. Adult specimens can range in size from around 3 to 5 inches in length. Due to this and and their level of activity, they usually require a larger sized enclosure than your average captive kept frog.
As with any amphibian, regular handling is not recommended. Frogs absorb moisture through their skin in order to stay hydrated, and handling can lead to them being unintentionally poisoned due to unseen contaminants on bare skin. Always wash hands and then rinse sufficiently enough as to remove any soap before handling - or alternatively, use non-powdered vinyl or nitrile gloves (NOT LATEX).
Frogs (particularly tree frogs) can also be prone to making sudden movements such as leaping from your hand, which makes them prone to injury from a fall or drop.
With those facts always on your mind - I can say that my experience with White's Tree Frogs has been that they make excellent pets.
They're typically quite gentle and calm and take well to being handled compared to other more flighty tree frog varieties. They do have a tendency to hurl themselves blindly in the direction of movement that might be perceived as a food source, but are not capable of inflicting a painful bite. They do however latch onto food - as most frogs do - and may require gentle assistance to persuade them to let go of a finger or feeding utensil that came to close to their line of vision.
White's Tree Frogs are considered fairly hardy when compared to some other types of frogs, but they do have some specific environmental needs that need to be maintained. a temperature gradient of 75-85 degrees Fahrenheit within their enclosure is ideal - giving the frog room to regulate its body temperature as its comfort dictates. This temperature can be allowed to drop slightly at night, as it would in their natural environment. I personally do this with use of a basking bulb which is turned off a night.
High moisture and humidity are essential for White's Tree Frogs, meaning you'll need to mist their enclosure at least every day, or saturate their substrate with water regularly. I keep humidity up by providing a large soaking dish, which my frogs make constant use of. They often spend most of the night wading in the water, rehydrating themselves.
Coco fiber and moss make great substrate for maintaining humidity, and work well when replaced during a monthly cleaning/break down of your terrarium.
Remember that these warm and damp conditions are conducive to mold and bacteria, which can easily make a frog sick, so ensure you have adequate ventilation in their enclosure, and regularly spot clean their home to prevent the air within from becoming stagnant.
The staple diet for most captive bred White's Tree Frogs is crickets, which MUST be regularly powdered with calcium and vitamin D supplementation. Other insect feeders such as hornworms, roaches and occasional super worms can be used where available though.
Average lifespan for a captive White's Tree Frog that has been provided with proper care ranges from 10-15 years, with rare reports of them surviving to closer to 20 years of age.
Reach me @:
Instagram: ItsAaronRose
Tiktok: Its_AaronRose
0:00 Intro/About WTFs
1:00 Size, Temperament & Behaviour
2:23 Handling your WTF
3:22 Other General Information
4:25 Housing a WTF
9:57 Feeding your Frog
12:33 Outro
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